Is politics fun again?
maybe just a little bit, right now?
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Oh hi, it’s been a minute! I could say I’ve been busy, which is true, but the main reason I’ve neglected this newsletter is that I just…didn’t…feel like…doing it? It just didn’t seem fun, and if it’s not fun, what’s the point? It’s unlikely any of you have been anxiously waiting around worried you’ll never again get to hear what’s up with me and what dumb thoughts are on my dumb mind.
BUT IN CASE YOU HAVE, here are some updates:
I have two new upcoming dates for my solo show Ready To Die?: August 9th at Crossroads Comedy in Philly (get tickets here), and August 29th at Caveat in NYC (ticketing will be online very soon).
And the second bit of “professional” news is that I wrote a silly lil’ op-ed for The Daily Beast this week, which you can read here. If you haven’t been keeping track of the “Kamala is brat” discourse this won’t make any sense to you, but I already explained it to one relative who sent me a Facebook message so if you’re confused you can go ask them.
And that brings me to my main point from the subject line of this email: I think it might be OK to have fun with politics again? Just a little bit? Right now?
I know democracy and civil rights and my uterus’ rights and literally the future of the planet and people’s lives and EVERYTHING are all still at stake, and that Kamala Harris (like any politician) isn’t a perfect superhero who will swoop in and fix everything and we’ll all be OK now. (I could go on about this, but instead I’ll just refer you to the much smarter versions by
for The Daily Beast and for her newsletter Gruesome Details.)But…isn’t it kind of nice that right now, at least this week, people are energized and parts of this election even feel kind of fun?
I’m not just talking about the brat memes. I’m talking about the AP retracting their fact-check saying JD Vance didn’t fuck a couch because they cannot actually, definitively state that JD Vance did not fuck couch. I’m talking about rumored Harris V.P. candidate Tim Walz just flat-out saying “these guys are weird” on MSNBC. Yes, they ARE weird. Let’s keep pointing out how weird they are. The weird stuff is what’s getting people’s attention. Trump keeps referencing Hannibal Lecter and it makes absolutely zero sense? Sure, let’s get into it.
Having fun with poking fun at these losers doesn’t mean you don’t also care about what really matters. I know the internet struggles with this concept, but people can, in fact, hold multiple ideas in their heads at once. So go ahead. Have fun laughing at the weirdos. You deserve it.